Day2 Indiana to Junction City, Kansas

Hightlights

Grandma

1. Your favorite sight:  Beaver in the water @ Milford Lake in Junction City Kansas as we kayaked

2. Your favorite moment:  Watching the boys catching bubbles this afternoon

3. Your favorite activity:  Kayaking on the lake

4. Other:  Riding bikes on the lewis & clark trail by the missouri river @ lunch break

5. Most thankful for:  How well our group has gotten along  & everyone has bought into the trip & doing their part to make it happy & comfortable & pleasurable for everyone else

Day2

1. Favorite Sight:  Realizing that the part of Kansas I drove through in the dark when I moved to CO was beautiful in the day time now I have to stop ragging on driving through Kansas.   

2. Favorite Moment:  Kayaking!  Having a beaver splash its tail at us to tell us to back off!

3. Favorite Activity:  Riding the bikes at lunch time & walking through the tunnel & hearing Grayson sing the whole way & Gabe whistle

4. Other:  Seeing a falling star over Wilford lake after a beautiful day with my family & having my children behave very well!

5. Gabe got the volleyball stuck in a net @ the stop for lunch & I threw my flip flop up & got it down.  He just grinned.

Mom had driven the entire day before, so I gave her relief after her first length of driving on day 2.  WELL, that was a mistake!  It poured and the wind blew!  The trucks were blowing me everywhere.  It was a bit overwhelming, but not only did I make it thorough that, we drove through St. Louis & Kansas City on my first outing driving the RV.  So, I feel pretty comfortable now.  :-) 

When we arrived at West Rolling Hills Campground, we realized we were 2 for 2 in choosing campgrounds.  Wilford Lake was beautiful.  It is the largest lake in Kansas.  The campground host joked with us that he should have known we would be coming in at that time because he had just started dinner.  After we got our site assignment we went on to find our spot.  David decided to cook hamburgers on the grill with Mac & cheese and the rest of us started blowing up the kayaks and putting together the paddles.  The trek to the water was short, but the banks were lined with large rocks....not too nice for the only member of the kayaking party that did not have water shoes (me). We started out by putting Gabe & Grandma in the first kayak & they helped me and Grayson get going.  We paddled about & pretty quickly realized we weren't alone in the water.  There were beavers all about.  Grayson & I went into the cove.  We were following one beaver to see where he might lead us and he decided he did not want to be followed but would rather be left alone!  He went under water & flapped his tail at us.  Grayson did not want me to paddle anymore.  We watched as the beaver gracefully swam around the cove keeping a safe eye on us.  We had about 4 around us at any one time.  It was a great experience.  Another thing in the water with us was fish jumping out of the water making big splashes.

As the sun went down the bank of the dam it gave everyone a preview of what the mesa mountains in Colorado will look like when the sun goes down in the next couple of days.